Posted by
Roxanna M. on Saturday, November 19, 2011 12:36:56 PM
Judge Laurence Silbermann is the latest judge to uphold the constitutionality of the individual mandate of the health care monstrosity known as "Obamacare." Why it's called that is unknown. Obama didn't write it. He didn't read it. He merely sandwiched in the signing of it between taxpayer-funded vacations. But I digress.
In an astonishingly stupid comment, Mr. Silbermann said that “The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute, and
yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national
solutions to national problems, no matter how local – or seemingly
passive – their individual origins," So yet another unelected, unaccountable slurper and burper at the public trough has decided that there is nothing that congress can't order us to do.
In doing their jobs, administration lawyers have stated that health care is "unique" and therefore the individual mandate is appropriate because at some point in time, everyone will need health care. Therefore, congress has the right to order us to buy this product.
I hate to break it to these overpaid
yahoos, but health care is NOT unique in that regard. At some point in
time, everyone will need food . . . clothing . . . housing . . .
transportation. Therefore, under the ruling of the right honorable Mr. Silbermann, and
the others who have enforced this mandate, congress can order us to buy
the type and quantity of food it dictates . . . the type and quantity of
clothing it dictates . . . the type and quantity of housing it dictates
. . . and the type and quantity of transportation it dictates.
And
don't say that I'm off on some tangent. If the Supreme Court, in an act
of incredible stupidity, decides to give congress this power, it won't stop at health care. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It will be open season on We the People, and we will have ceased to be a free people. We will be nothing but slaves of a power-hungry state that has been told there is no limit to its powers.
Hitler saw a national problem: Jews . . . and forged a national
solution . . . The Holocaust.